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02.04.2025
Best known as a professional wrestler and Fezzik in "The Princess Bride," André the Giant was over seven feet tall and weighed as much as 520 pounds.
From sod houses and log cabins to farms and covered wagons, see what Nebraska looked like in the early days of its statehood.
DNA sequenced from the 3,500-year-old "Jomōn woman" has since revealed invaluable biological and cultural details about ancient Japan.
While sifting through a garbage heap in Vladislav Hall, archaeologists found Europe's oldest vanilla pod, dating to between 1513 and 1666.
01.04.2025
The Russo-Finnish War, also known as the Winter War, was fought from November 1939 to March 1940 and saw the Soviet Union seize 11 percent of Finland.
A 6,000-year-old cache of weapons, including boomerangs and darts, was discovered in the San Esteban Rockshelter at Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Walter Jackson Freeman II introduced lobotomies to the U.S. and invented a version of the transorbital lobotomy that left hundreds of patients dead.
From the early civil rights movement to the rise of rock 'n' roll, see what the 1950s were really like with these colorized photos.
Archaeologists have uncovered new details about the 140 dogs that were ritually sacrificed at Nescot quarry during the Roman era.
Clergyman Sylvester Graham invented graham crackers in 1829 because he believed that bland foods like these would help repress Americans' sexual desires.
Air Force Officer Jesse Marcel, who investigated the Roswell UFO incident, kept a coded diary during the investigations.
30.03.2025
A French entertainer known as Monsieur Mangetout, Michel Lotito consumed many unusual items — but did he actually eat a whole Cessna 150 airplane?
29.03.2025
Christopher Columbus' accounts that there were cannibals in the Caribbean were often dismissed, but one study found that he may have been right.
Between 1978 and 1991, "Milwaukee Monster" Jeffrey Dahmer killed at least 17 young men and boys before butchering and eating their remains.
The well-preserved mammoth fossils are just the latest discovery to come out of the Siberian territory.
Declassified CIA documents reveal how the agency used a psychic to try to locate the fabled Ark of the Covenant in 1988.
Archaeologists digging in Bayanbulag, Mongolia found a burial pit filled with Han warriors who were killed and dismembered 2,100 years ago.
On July 1, 1976, Anneliese Michel died of malnutrition at just 23 after suffering a series of 67 exorcisms due to her alleged demonic possession.
28.03.2025
A study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force trauma to its head.
A metal detectorist found a medieval ring while exploring King Row in Norfolk, England in 2019, and it just sold for $24,000 at auction.
On June 6, 2020, Michigan medical student Jack Stuef found the Fenn Treasure that art dealer Forrest Fenn had hidden at an undisclosed location in Wyoming circa 2010.
A mysterious pyramid structure was just uncovered in the Judean Desert surrounded by artifacts like Greek papyri, weapons, and bronze coins.
27.03.2025
Archaeologists in Velzeke uncovered the remarkably well-preserved remains of an ancient Roman dog that may have been ritually sacrificed.
Marcus Antonius, or Mark Antony, was a Roman general under Julius Caesar who later began a doomed relationship with Cleopatra.
26.03.2025
Archaeologists found a ceremonial stone circle connected to the Farley Moor standing stone in Derbyshire that's believed to be 3,700 years old.
After cheating death twice, Sisyphus was condemned in the underworld to the eternal task of rolling a boulder up a hill — only to watch it roll back down.
This giant's name translates to "a giant thunderclap at dawn" — and, at 26,000 pounds, it's easy to see why.
The 1897 portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona is now expected to sell for $16 million at TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands.
25.03.2025
First inhabited in 1816, Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island in the South Atlantic with a population of 250 people living in its sole settlement, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
From the civil rights movement to the Woodstock music festival, go inside the history of the 1960s with these famous vintage photos.
During World War 2, Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko earned the nickname "Lady Death" after carrying out 309 confirmed kills for the Red Army.
The 3,000-year-old tomb of a high-ranking military commander from the reign of Ramses III has been found in Ismailia, Egypt.
A centuries-old statue depicting the Hindu deity Vishnu mysteriously washed up on Pedda Rushikonda beach on India's eastern coast.
Born Phoebe Ann Moses in a poor Ohio family, Annie Oakley rose to fame as a skilled markswoman in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Bamburgh Castle was once home to the medieval rulers of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria and faced attacks by Normans, Scots, and Vikings.
24.03.2025
Skadi is described in Norse texts as a giantess who became a goddess, and she’s said to be connected to winter, skiing, the wilderness, and hunting.
23.03.2025
While "hell ants" have been found in amber fossils before, this is the first time humans have seen how these extinct insects fed.
"The remains are highly evocative because they enable us to make almost face-to-face connection with animals that are tens of thousands of years old."
22.03.2025
The shackles date back to the 3rd century B.C.E. and confirm that some Ptolemaic-era workers at the Ghozza mine were victims of forced labor.
In 1893, "Rattlesnake King" Clark Stanley introduced his fraudulent "snake oil" as a cure for arthritis, and today the term describes a quack remedy.